Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth Brown & Co Eighteen years old

Eighteen years old

he had seen most of the known world

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without suffering the consequences

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Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth Brown & Co Eighteen years old"Rupert Brooke, isn't it a romantic name?" wrote Lytton Strachey to Virginia Woolf, after first meeting the man who became the "star" of an exceptionally brilliant generation. But behind the facade of the stunning looks and the golden boy image a very different Brooke was concealed that was far from romantic and is now revealed in this utterly candid biography. After cutting a swathe through his contemporaries at Rugby and Cambridge, Brooke became the